Dr. Whitehouse is one of the pioneering researchers in this field, but advocates devoting resources to helping elders with with a wide range of age-related brain changes. This interview should be of interest to physicians, scientists, as well as patients and their families. I will be posting a supplemental interview with Daniel George, the co-author of The Myth of Alzheimer's later this month. (Learn more at http://booksandideas.com)

Drapetomania: an alleged mental illness invented in 1851 that supposedly caused slaves to run away. As Dr. Whitehouse observed during his interview, "diseases are not discovered by doctors, they are invented."

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